Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2003 in the subject Psychology - Personality Psychology, grade: very good, University of Graz (Psychology; Personality Psychology), language: English, abstract: The EI construct, which developed mainly during the last decade, has been split into an ability-EI and a trait-EI. Originally EI was proposed as an intelligence, needed because emotional information is processed differently from non-emotional information. However, due to the lack of adequate objective measures for ability-EI, trait-EI became popular. In this study, an innovative approach building on the use of mental speed (MS) measures was theoretically justified and applied to emotional information processing in order to tackle the criterion problem for emotional test items and to investigate the relationship between mental speed and intelligence. Emotional and non-emotional tests following a simple reaction time (RT) and the Posner paradigm were constructed and administered along with Raven's APM to a sample of 121 college and university students at Hiroshima University, Japan. Approximately half of these students were Japanese nationals, while the other half were international students, coming from countries all over the world. The APM score correlated low but significantly with both RT tests, but neither with the emotional nor the non-emotional long term memory (LTM) access times. In varimax factor analyses (FA) the emotional MS tests grouped together to one factor, while IQ and non-emotional MS tests formed two more factors. Additionally, an AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures; an SPSS compatible program for structural equation modelling distributed by Smallwaters Company) model confirmed the existence of two factors, one for the emotional and one for the non-emotional testscores. This general picture did also not change substantially, when the data were analysed separately for the two groups (Japanese, international students). Although there were some changes in the size of single correlations among MS testscores, the results of the FA as well as the AMOS model was supported in the separated group data.

Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject Psychology - Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology, Prevention, grade: Good, Hendrix College (Department for Abnormal Psychology), course: Independent Study, language: English, abstract: 1. IncidenceThis first part of the paper deals with the question of how to define child sexual abuse. Differences in the definitions that impede a comparison of different studies conducted onthis topic are examined. Child sexual abuse has long been thought to be rare or at leastoccurring in small numbers only. In recent decades, however, the incidence of childsexual abuse cases seemed to explode. Probably only the higher number of reported casesis responsible for that phenomenon. The incidence of child sexual abuse probably did notreally change. The number of child sexual abuse ranges for females somewhere between6% to 62% and for males between 3% and 31% (Whetsell-Mitchell, 1995; Finkelhor,1993). The large difference between these numbers is due mainly to the fact of differentdefinitions in the studies. In the following paragraphs three different elements for whichdefinitions seem necessary are discussed. First the phrase child sexual abuse is to bedefined. Second phrases for the sexual inappropriate behavior are examined, and thirdterms to name the abuser are defined. 2. Child Sexual Abuse. A sample of phrases equated with child sexual abuse by different researchers is: sexualvictimization, sexual exploitation, sexual assault, sexual misuse, child molestation, sexualmaltreatment, and child rape (Whetsell-Mitchell, 1995). Discussion about child sexualabuse becomes even more difficult when different fields are taken into account. The legaland the social welfare system have quite different ideas of child sexual abuse, and these ideas are different from the psychological ideas as well. Some features are moreambiguous than others are. For instance, it is more likely for different people to agree thatchild sexual abuse has happened when one or the other form of penetration was involved. It becomes more difficult when behavior is examined that might be perfectly normal inone family, while abusive in another family. This depends on the family s idea andpractice of nudity. While one family thinks it inappropriate to be naked in front of thechild another family might find this perfectly normal. Thus, if one of the parents wouldapproach his or her naked child during bathing, it would be normal in family two but notin the first one. This is largely related to the environment in which the child grew up. Onefeature that indicates sexual abusive behavior is sexual gratification for the involvedadult. [...]

Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject Psychology - Developmental Psychology, grade: very good, Hendrix College (Department for Social Psychology), course: Independent Study, language: English, abstract: This paper is a comprehensive review of psychological literature concerning the issue ofmorality in psychological research. Though the emphasis is on psychological constructsthe first chapter offers philosophical and sociological views on morality. In the secondchapter Kohlberg s stage sequence theory is explained from its origins in Piaget s workto various criticisms of the theory. The second chapter also provides extensiveinformation about measurement and the different approaches popular in psychologicalliterature. The last part in the second chapter links other constructs like socioeconomicstatus, grade point average, collectivism, and psychoticism to moral reasoning. The thirdchapter concludes the paper with a review of the most important thoughts on morality andstates the need for further research in special areas.

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: A, Hiroshima University (International Law), course: Internationales Recht, language: English, abstract: To learn from the atrocities committed during the Second World War and to avoid their reoccurrence was the declared aim of all nations after the WW II was over and the Axis powers had been defeated. Once and for all it had become clear that the protection of human rights could not be regarded as any nation's internal affairs. In Europe, Nazi-Germany served as a deterring case how a national regime could impose progressively worse treatments (from discriminations to genocide) on certain minorities, if no outside control provided an ultimate safeguard. The aim of the international law treaties signed inside Europe after WWII was to provide exactly such a safeguard and to integrate defeating and defeated countries into binding cooperation. One such cooperation took the form of the European Communities (most prominently the EC), another one the form of the Council of Europe (the organization drafting and controlling the European Convention on Human Rights (henceforth: convention)). In this paper using the issue of deportation of aliens I want to provide an overview on the position of a typical European country like Austria in regard to the obligation derived from the convention institution s case law. ? What is deportation ? (Merriam-Webster s Dictionary of Law). The removal from a country of an alien whose presence is illegal or detrimental to the public welfare. NOT: Exclusion: refusal of entry into a country by the immigration officials. NOT: Extradition: the surrender of an accused usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one sovereign (state or nation) to another that has jurisdiction to try the accused and that has demanded his or her return. Which aliens enjoy welcome varies with different nations, the four problem categories below, however, serve as a general outline for understanding unwanted immigration . i.) illegal aliens discovered on a nation s territoryii.) legal long-term aliens becoming illegaliii.) legal aliens committing misdemeanorsiv.) 2nd generation immigrants (or later) committing misdemeanors

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: A, Hiroshima University (International Law), course: International Law, language: English, abstract: To learn from the atrocities committed during the Second World War and to avoid their reoccurrence was the declared aim of all nations after the WW II was over and the Axis powers had been defeated. Once and for all it had become clear that the protection of human rights could not be regarded as any nation's internal affairs. In Europe, Nazi-Germany served as a deterring case how a national regime could impose progressively worse treatments (from discriminations to genocide) on certain minorities, if no outside control provided an ultimate safeguard.The aim of the international law treaties signed inside Europe after WWII was to provide exactly such a safeguard and to integrate defeating and defeated countries into binding cooperation. One such cooperation took the form of the European Communities (most prominently the EC), another one the form of the Council of Europe (the organization drafting and controlling the European Convention on Human Rights (henceforth: convention)). In this paper using the issue of deportation of aliens I want to provide an overview on the position of a typical European country like Austria in regard to the obligation derived from the convention institution's case law.

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2003 in the subject Psychology - Personality Psychology, grade: very good, University of Graz (Psychology; Personality Psychology), language: English, abstract: The EI construct, which developed mainly during the last decade, has been split into an ability-EI and a trait-EI. Originally EI was proposed as an intelligence, needed because emotional information is processed differently from non-emotional information. However, due to the lack of adequate objective measures for ability-EI, trait-EI became popular. In this study, an innovative approach building on the use of mental speed (MS) measures was theoretically justified and applied to emotional information processing in order to tackle the criterion problem for emotional test items and to investigate the relationship between mental speed and intelligence. Emotional and non-emotional tests following a simple reaction time (RT) and the Posner paradigm were constructed and administered along with Raven's APM to a sample of 121 college and university students at Hiroshima University, Japan. Approximately half of these students were Japanese nationals, while the other half were international students, coming from countries all over the world. The APM score correlated low but significantly with both RT tests, but neither with the emotional nor the non-emotional long term memory (LTM) access times. In varimax factor analyses (FA) the emotional MS tests grouped together to one factor, while IQ and non-emotional MS tests formed two more factors. Additionally, an AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures; an SPSS compatible program for structural equation modelling distributed by Smallwaters Company) model confirmed the existence of two factors, one for the emotional and one for the non-emotional testscores. This general picture did also not change substantially, when the data were analysed separately for the two groups (Japanese, international students). Although there were some changes in the size of single correlations among MS testscores, the results of the FA as well as the AMOS model was supported in the separated group data.

Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject Psychology - Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology, Prevention, grade: Good, Hendrix College (Department for Abnormal Psychology), course: Independent Study, language: English, abstract: 1. IncidenceThis first part of the paper deals with the question of how to define child sexual abuse. Differences in the definitions that impede a comparison of different studies conducted onthis topic are examined. Child sexual abuse has long been thought to be rare or at leastoccurring in small numbers only. In recent decades, however, the incidence of childsexual abuse cases seemed to explode. Probably only the higher number of reported casesis responsible for that phenomenon. The incidence of child sexual abuse probably did notreally change. The number of child sexual abuse ranges for females somewhere between6% to 62% and for males between 3% and 31% (Whetsell-Mitchell, 1995; Finkelhor,1993). The large difference between these numbers is due mainly to the fact of differentdefinitions in the studies. In the following paragraphs three different elements for whichdefinitions seem necessary are discussed. First the phrase child sexual abuse is to bedefined. Second phrases for the sexual inappropriate behavior are examined, and thirdterms to name the abuser are defined. 2. Child Sexual Abuse. A sample of phrases equated with child sexual abuse by different researchers is: sexualvictimization, sexual exploitation, sexual assault, sexual misuse, child molestation, sexualmaltreatment, and child rape (Whetsell-Mitchell, 1995). Discussion about child sexualabuse becomes even more difficult when different fields are taken into account. The legaland the social welfare system have quite different ideas of child sexual abuse, and these ideas are different from the psychological ideas as well. Some features are moreambiguous than others are. For instance, it is more likely for different people to agree thatchild sexual abuse has happened when one or the other form of penetration was involved. It becomes more difficult when behavior is examined that might be perfectly normal inone family, while abusive in another family. This depends on the family s idea andpractice of nudity. While one family thinks it inappropriate to be naked in front of thechild another family might find this perfectly normal. Thus, if one of the parents wouldapproach his or her naked child during bathing, it would be normal in family two but notin the first one. This is largely related to the environment in which the child grew up. Onefeature that indicates sexual abusive behavior is sexual gratification for the involvedadult. [...]

Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject Psychology - Developmental Psychology, grade: very good, Hendrix College (Department for Social Psychology), course: Independent Study, language: English, abstract: This paper is a comprehensive review of psychological literature concerning the issue ofmorality in psychological research. Though the emphasis is on psychological constructsthe first chapter offers philosophical and sociological views on morality. In the secondchapter Kohlberg s stage sequence theory is explained from its origins in Piaget s workto various criticisms of the theory. The second chapter also provides extensiveinformation about measurement and the different approaches popular in psychologicalliterature. The last part in the second chapter links other constructs like socioeconomicstatus, grade point average, collectivism, and psychoticism to moral reasoning. The thirdchapter concludes the paper with a review of the most important thoughts on morality andstates the need for further research in special areas.

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: A, Hiroshima University (International Law), course: Internationales Recht, language: English, abstract: To learn from the atrocities committed during the Second World War and to avoid their reoccurrence was the declared aim of all nations after the WW II was over and the Axis powers had been defeated. Once and for all it had become clear that the protection of human rights could not be regarded as any nation's internal affairs. In Europe, Nazi-Germany served as a deterring case how a national regime could impose progressively worse treatments (from discriminations to genocide) on certain minorities, if no outside control provided an ultimate safeguard. The aim of the international law treaties signed inside Europe after WWII was to provide exactly such a safeguard and to integrate defeating and defeated countries into binding cooperation. One such cooperation took the form of the European Communities (most prominently the EC), another one the form of the Council of Europe (the organization drafting and controlling the European Convention on Human Rights (henceforth: convention)). In this paper using the issue of deportation of aliens I want to provide an overview on the position of a typical European country like Austria in regard to the obligation derived from the convention institution s case law. ? What is deportation ? (Merriam-Webster s Dictionary of Law). The removal from a country of an alien whose presence is illegal or detrimental to the public welfare. NOT: Exclusion: refusal of entry into a country by the immigration officials. NOT: Extradition: the surrender of an accused usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one sovereign (state or nation) to another that has jurisdiction to try the accused and that has demanded his or her return. Which aliens enjoy welcome varies with different nations, the four problem categories below, however, serve as a general outline for understanding unwanted immigration . i.) illegal aliens discovered on a nation s territoryii.) legal long-term aliens becoming illegaliii.) legal aliens committing misdemeanorsiv.) 2nd generation immigrants (or later) committing misdemeanors

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: A, Hiroshima University (International Law), course: International Law, language: English, abstract: To learn from the atrocities committed during the Second World War and to avoid their reoccurrence was the declared aim of all nations after the WW II was over and the Axis powers had been defeated. Once and for all it had become clear that the protection of human rights could not be regarded as any nation's internal affairs. In Europe, Nazi-Germany served as a deterring case how a national regime could impose progressively worse treatments (from discriminations to genocide) on certain minorities, if no outside control provided an ultimate safeguard.The aim of the international law treaties signed inside Europe after WWII was to provide exactly such a safeguard and to integrate defeating and defeated countries into binding cooperation. One such cooperation took the form of the European Communities (most prominently the EC), another one the form of the Council of Europe (the organization drafting and controlling the European Convention on Human Rights (henceforth: convention)). In this paper using the issue of deportation of aliens I want to provide an overview on the position of a typical European country like Austria in regard to the obligation derived from the convention institution's case law.